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title: “’Tis no such thing!” cried the maiden angrily, and she beat the wat… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “’Tis no such thing!” cried the maiden angrily, and she beat the water with her feet until the sea seemed boiling around her. Who acts: Tis, sea. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 70

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“’Tis no such thing!” cried the maiden angrily, and she beat the water with her feet until the sea seemed boiling around her.

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**Who acts:** Tis, sea · **What happens:** cry, beat, seem, boil · **To what, where:** water

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis, sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:19:70
# text = “’Tis no such thing!” cried the maiden angrily, and she beat the water with her feet until the sea seemed boiling around her.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	around	around	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Tis |  |  |  |  | maiden *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beat** | past | Tis | the water |  |  |  | with Tis's feet | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient with foot=Instrument |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **boil** | gerund | the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around Tis | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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